April 28, 2004

I’ve added a “post-it note” to the above map of Asia, letting newcomers know that I’ve gone home. I don’t want to give up this site’s look and feel, and this was the best (and cheapest) solution I could think of.

when i lived in Dallas, my family and I used to always eat at aplace called “On The Border,” conveniently located 745 miles north of Mexico (an approximation). And when I lived in Harlingen, Texas, we routinely used to eat at little cantinas that served the world’s hottest habanero omlettes.

Boy, I was overwhelmed with several things. First, I forgot how hot Arizona is, and I burned my hand on my steering wheel the other day. I was shocked to see how Fox News (which didn’t exist when I left for Asia) has become a dangerous propaganda machine. All sorts of little things, the high cost of gasoline, the idiocy of reality TV, the angst over the job scene…. And yes, there’s a lot I miss about China and HK (and nothing about Singapore), especially when it comes to people. But I don’t want to wax nostalgic….

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A peculiar hybrid of personal journal, dilettantish punditry, pseudo-philosophy and much more, from an Accidental Expat who has made his way from Hong Kong to Beijing to Taipei and finally back to Beijing for reasons that are still not entirely clear to him…